Affordable housing in Palma - nigh on impossible
Developers say that building social housing in Palma is not feasible.
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Estate agent window in Palma, Mallorca
Podemos are highlighting housing policy failings.
New demand to restrict non-resident home buying in the Balearics
"If there is the political will, it can be done."
Parliament approves house building restrictions in the Balearics
The opposition say that there has been a "failure of housing policies".
Builders and developers fume over building freeze
"Direct assault on affordable housing..."
Balearic political parties launch their foreign vote campaigns with property restrictions and wealth tax topping the agenda
“The left criminalises foreigners with a house on the island due to the failure of its housing policies and as they watch them fail, they consider prohibition as the solution."
Opposition keep up the attack against foreign home-buying ban
Marga Prohens says that government housing policies have been "populist, radical and ineffective".
Former government housing director questions the sense of a foreign buyer ban
"I would be surprised if it (a foreign buyer ban) had a significant impact."
Balearics government says property laws for non residents are up to the EU
Government looking to adopt a more European policy for all island regions.
Property prices have gone through the roof in the Balearics.
Property prices have gone through the roof in the Balearics.
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Balearic government "making the impossible possible"
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Election pledge to ban all home building in Mallorca's countryside
No new residential properties, no new hotels; "we have reached unsustainable limits".
Increase in house prices in Mallorca forecast to be lower next year than in 2022
While prices are falling in some regions, the Balearics isn't one of them.
Balearics - the highest rate of express squatter eviction cases
There were 170 such legal proceedings in the Balearics last year.
"The main economy in the Balearics has become the real-estate business"
"People here won't be able to compete unless regulation is put in place for foreign buyers."
Evicted, owing 68,000 euros rent
There was a rent-to-buy agreement, but this was not carried out in the agreed period.
Balearics wanting to cap rents in "stressed areas"
A problem is that the new national housing law is currently stuck in Congress.
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